From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 27 15:54:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14478 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:54:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14465 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA04065; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:53:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:53:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Sue Blake cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concurrent package making allowed? In-Reply-To: <19980627125701.16222@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote: -snip- > OK, after eyeballing the list sifted as above, here's just a few of the > ports that look like they could be for X but I can't tell from INDEX. > > cddbd-1.3.1p1 don't think so - this is just a database server > cdplay-0.92 nope - read the DESCR :-) > gsm-1.0.10 doubt it - this just converst sound files amongst different types > maplay-1.2 don't think so.. > mikmod-2.14 nope - uses ncurses, which is marked broken anyway... :-) > sox nope - sound converter again -snip- tired of reading pkg/DESCR > splay-0.5 oops one more - nope - I did splay-tk port to make an X gui > then there's screens and screens of games and graphics... > some in databases, mail, math, misc, print, textproc, www... everywhere. Essentially all the games use X. Graphics - well that pretty much screams X. I understand it can be confusing, but we don't want to make an X dependency. I suppose we could go back and put "USE_X11= yes" in each of the port Makefiles, but that won't help in the INDEX. In addition, all USE_X11 does is set PREFIX = ${X11BASE} anyway, as I recall. I personally don't think the INDEX should be the end all to everything and have every single piece of information in it. If you SEE something in the INDEX, don't you go read the pkg/DESCR or pkg/COMMENT for that port to see if it's really what you want? It's pretty easy, usually, to determine what needs X and what doesn't from the description (of course maybe I've been at this too long and it just seems easy to me now). Brett ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message